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(ILLINOIS). Galena Guide. Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project (Illinois), Works Progress Administration. American Guide Series. Sponsored by the City of Galena, 1937. Photos, maps, woodblock illus. Folded color map. [80], 15pp. Orig. printed wraps. Wrapper a little worn and darkened, else a very good copy. This is mostly the work of Nelson Algren.
Galena Guide by (WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION -- Galena, Illinois) - 1937
by (WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION -- Galena, Illinois)
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Galena Guide
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[Galena]: City of Galena, 1937. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 79pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, linoleum-block engravings, small color foldout map at rear. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers, though internally tight and near fine. Nice first edition of this Federal Writers' Project city guide, written largely and anonymously by a then-obscure starving young artist named Nelson Algren (1909-81), who went on to far greater fame as the "Poet of the Chicago Slums," author of "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1949) and other classic Chicago fiction. One of the most desirable of the WPA city guides. The Richard Delson plates are simple but striking and powerful; the often-absent color map at rear is bright and handsome. From the library of former Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (b. 1930) and before him his father, Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), with front flyleaf bearing small pencilled note in the hand of well-known socialite Ellen Borden Stevenson (1908-72), the governor's wife (1929-48). Nice copy with superb associations. DYKES 81.
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- Keywords NELSON ALGREN, WPA
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Galena Guide
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Galena, IL: Works Progress Administration [Sponsored by The City of Galena], 1937. First edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [6], 9-79, [1] pp. Blue paper wrappers printed in blue and gold. Illustrated with a frontispiece etching, several etched in-text and full-page designs, and around ten plates of black and white photographs at the end. A folding color map tipped in the rear. Part of the American Guide Series. Bruccoli B2. Compiled and written by Federal Writers' Project (Illinois) Works Progress Administration. Nelson Algren wrote eight chapters of this guide, including the section on U.S. Grant and the history of the town's economy. With interviews of the residents of Galena, and a blurb on the Native American burial grounds in the area. The history of Galena's mining and farming industries, and its natural history is also discussed. The guide has a brief history of Ulysses S. Grant and how he made his home in Galena. A historic guide to the legends, sights, and scenery of the charming town of…
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